Bought the cheap fitness tracker over the Garmin, huge mistake

I needed a new watch to track my runs and had to pick between a $40 no-name brand from Amazon or the Garmin Forerunner 55 for $200. I went cheap to save cash, thinking all pedometers were the same now. After two weeks, the heart rate monitor was off by like 20 beats per minute compared to my gym's machine, and the step count added 3000 steps if I just waved my arm. Total junk. I returned it and got the Garmin last month, and the GPS is spot on, even on my route through Riverside Park. Anyone else get burned by a budget gadget that just didn't work?

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tylerbutler5d ago

Learned that lesson the hard way with a cheap smartwatch. The GPS was so bad it thought I ran through a lake. Sometimes you just gotta pay for the thing that actually works.

abby8365d ago

My old watch had me taking a swim in the park too. Guess I'm part duck now.